St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-18
PROHIBITION AT NANDAN.
Morton County Probably to Take
Vote on the Question.

Special to the Globe
MANDAN, Oak, June 17.-This CONF
munity is getting itself sadly worked upi
on the prohibition question. 1t is nots
the temperance. question merely, but the3
agitators are going in for prohibitions
AS amatter of fact Dakota, with its new;
1ocal-option law, is going to have somel
lively work done within its bordersj
during the next fewweekS. The boards55
of county commissioners in a greatI
many counties will have presented toll
them petitions signed by the required
humber of voters, and they will have nos
alternative but to order elections. Ash
theTeadefs Of the GLOBE are aware, if
the county commissioners any county,
i'll Dakota are presented with a petitio1a
sixty days before the November elec-y
ton, the board must order an electi6n.5
1T at that election a majority of thel
voters. decide for prohibition, then it,
will will not be lawful for the 'commis-s
sioners to issue any license, ora
for any city or village coun-S
ell TO tissue any. In caseS1
of Illegal traffic in intoxicants- the dis-s
trlct attorney has to conduct prosecute
lions free of cost to the complaining
witness. 1t is to come, under the pro7S
visions of this law that the, temperance
people of this county are working. Thai
local W. It. u. has had the nationaIj
organizer to deliver a.eouplefof addressN
.es here, and Miss Frances Willard is to5
be here this week. 1t is expected thats
in few days petitions will be circu.J
lated, and it is probable that at leasE
the required number of signers. will bel
obtained to secure an election. WhethG
er or not the votes will be in sufficient
numbers to give us prohibition is a mat.S
ter of doubt. This town has a large5
floating and railroad vote, and this vota5
is generally supposed to be against prod
hibition. There are over 1,060s
votes in the county, of which nearly 5eG
are in Mandan. The vote will be cloSes
good many strong prohibitionists iflS
town. The members at the ProteStanH
churches are not all unanimous in their
enthusiasm for prohibition. Some offs
them believe in temperance beings
taught, but they look upon the Christian
religion as being the great save-all fronrJ
such evils as intemperance, and are notI
slow to pronounce their lack of faithsi
in prohibition. One of them said to-s
day that man who is sober by act of
the legislature is not very much betteBS
liberals, of whom there is always AL
good sprinkling in Western commu-S
nifty, ask if enforced sobriety will not bei
followed by enforced belief in somet
dogmas that a majority of the peoples
believe in? The correspondent is noej
compelled. fortunately, to answer alfS
these questions. A saloon man said to1
the correspondent to-day that lie was mi
favor of prohibition. Under that lawa
he figured that he would sell just asi
much whisky and would have no licensed
to pay. The license in town now isl
$500 year. This is high, and it is al
question if the saloon men would not be9
better off. from a pecuniary point ofS;;
view, with prohibition. This will, Of
course. depend largely upon whether or
not the law, if passed, can be enforced
whether OF not public sentiment Wilt
be strong enough to make it other thanl
q dead letter. III